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New Generation University: Department of Agriculture

This document outlines a course on water resource management offered by the Department of Agriculture at New Generation University. The 3 credit hour course covers topics such as water resource management in developing nations, ground water resource management, rainwater harvesting, watershed management, water resource development, irrigation water quality and management, and water resource planning. The course objectives are for students to define water resource problems, describe fundamentals of the water cycle and hydrology, discuss the planning process and tools, and evaluate components of water resource planning projects. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, attendance, and a final exam.

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New Generation University: Department of Agriculture

This document outlines a course on water resource management offered by the Department of Agriculture at New Generation University. The 3 credit hour course covers topics such as water resource management in developing nations, ground water resource management, rainwater harvesting, watershed management, water resource development, irrigation water quality and management, and water resource planning. The course objectives are for students to define water resource problems, describe fundamentals of the water cycle and hydrology, discuss the planning process and tools, and evaluate components of water resource planning projects. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, attendance, and a final exam.

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NEW GENERATION UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Course Name : Water Resource Management
Course Number : ------
Credit Hours : 3Hrs
Prerequisite : none
Section : Undergraduate
Instructor : Nimcan Abdi
Academic Year : 2020/2021
Course Content
1. WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING NATIONS
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Source of Water and Hydrologic Cycle
1.3 Run-off and Factors Affecting Runoff
2. GROUND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
2.1 Overview of GW resource management
2.2 Well Irrigation
2.3 Occurrence of GW
3. RAINWATER HARVESTING
3.1 Importance of Water Harvesting
3.2 Preparation of Harvesting Catchments
3.3 Techniques of Water harvesting
3.4 R/W Harvesting - Concepts R/W Collection & Storage – Eng. Principles
4. BASICS OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Definition of Watershed
4.3 Concepts of Watershed
4.4 Concept of Watershed Management
4.5 Principles of Watershed Management
4.6 Objectives of Watershed Management.
4.7 Benefits of Watershed Management
5. WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
5.1 Single and Multiple Use
5.2 Consumption and non-consumption use of water
5.3 Compatibility of different water uses.
5.4 Irrigational development.
5.5 Spring water development.
6. IRRIGATIONAL WATER QUALITY AND MANAGEMENT
7.1 Suitability for irrigational water
7.2 Classification of irrigational water quality
7.3 Salinization
7.4 Management the salt effected irrigational water
7.4.1 Leaching requirement plus artificial drainage
7.4.2 Pre-plant irrigation
7.4.3 Irrigational frequency management
7.4.4 Residue management
NEW GENERATION UNIVERSITY

7. WATER RESOURCE PLANING


7.1 Planning approaches.
7.2 Methods and Levels of planning
7.3 Demands on water resource systems
7.4 Basic information for planning
7.5 Feasibility and Design
7.6 Concept of Master Planning
7.7 Water Resource project formulation

Course Objectives: at the end of the course students will be able to:
Define various water resource problems.
To describe fundamentals of the water cycle, hydrology and water use trends and
categories necessary for water resources planning
To discuss the planning process, its implementation activities and its various
theoretical bases understand the political and institutional context of water
resources protection and management
To distinguish the various planning tools as well as their applicability and
usefulness
To evaluate component(s) of a specific water resource planning project
.REFERENCES

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Best Practices Manual, by Robert J.


Vedula water resource systems and Victor Syambi, International Aid Services – Sweden
(http://www.ias-intl.org), 2013. Fundamentals of Hydraulic Engineering Systems, 4th Ed.
(selected chapters), Robert J. Houghtalen et. al., Pearson, 2010.

Evaluations of Assessment
quiz, assignment & attendance
40%
final exam 60%

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